University Professor for Systematic Musicology

Institute of Musiology 

Albertus-Magnus-Platz

D-50923 Köln

Germany

E-Mail: hauke.egermann(at)uni-koeln.de

Curriculum Vitae

Hauke Egermann studied systematic musicology, media studies and communication research (MA 2006, Hanover University of Music and Theater). He then studied neuroscience (PhD in music psychology/neuroscience 2009, Center for Systemic Neuroscience Hanover). He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (2009-2011, McGill University, Montreal, Canada). From 2011 to 2015 he taught and researched at the Audio Communication Group (Technical University of Berlin, Germany). In 2015 he was a visiting research fellow at the Center for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London. In 2016 he received his habilitation in musicology at the Technical University of Berlin. From 2016 he was first Assistant Professor (Lecturer), then Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the Department of Music, University of York, UK (until 2023). Here he founded and directed the York Music Psychology Group. Since October 2021, Hauke Egermann has been a university professor for systematic musicology, initially at the Institute for Music and Musicology at the Technical University of Dortmund, and from November 2023 at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Cologne.

His research interests are: 

• Music and emotion
• Empirical aesthetics of music
• Intercultural music cognition
• Music media and technology
• Audience research

He has lead various international research projects (selection):

• Experimental Concert Research (VolkswagenStiftung, Total amount funded: 1.500.000 €, Role: Co-Investigator, 2019-2023)  
• Artist-to-Business-to-Business-to-Consumer Audio Branding System ABCDJ (EU Horizon 2020 ICT 19.a, Total amount funded: 3.500.000 €, Role: Work Package Leader und Co-Investigator, 2016-2018)
• Interaction between Aesthetic Judgement and Emotional Processing of Contemporary Music (University Pump Funding, bewilligte Total amount funded: £54,710, Role: Principle Investigator, 2016-2017) 
• Design, Development and Dissemination of New Musical Instruments 3DMIN (Einstein Stiftung Berlin, Total amount funded: 700.000 €, Role: Work Package Leader und Co-Investigator, 2013-2016)